Wolf. Roles. Camp.

The boys are playing well together. I tune in from the dining room table and write down their script.

F: “I can’t sleep there’s a wolf.” They’ve each made a fort on either side of the living room.

A: “There’s company coming the day after Friday, so they will get the wolf soon, k?”

F: “K?”

A: “We need you now.” Asher speaks into his walkie talkie. His lips are basically kissing he speaker. “They said they’ll come as fast as they can. I have my speaker right there.” Then he speaks back into his walkie talkie. “Enproaching, my brother needs you now.”

F: “I need you now!”

A: “I’m calling them, to stay over every night. Yeah approaching, we need you now, as fast as you can. As fast as my speed car. K. (mumble mumble…) yeah, now, Okay? K.”

F: “Are they coming?”

A: “They said they were coming, but they have to stay at someone else’s house.”

F: “HHHMMMM,” he wines.

A: “Don’t worry. They are coming. They want to come.”

F: “What’s happening? What’s happening Asher? Are they coming?”

A: “Yes.”

F: “Are they coming right now?”

A: “Poke your head.”

F: “I don’t want you to poke me.”

A: “Now give me privacy. Put my lid on now.”

F: “Okay.”Giggle. Finn puts lid on fort. “Why don’t you want it top of your head?”

A: “I want it here, not to here , there… nooo…”

F: “Chicka chicka boom boom”

A: “hhhhmmm hhmmm hm mm mm (Asher hums mississippi stop stop)”

……And the play goes on….

F: “This is not working so well… ” He struggles to get the lid on his fort?

A: “What’s wrong?”

F: “This isn’t working very well.”

A: “I’m doing my papers, I can’t talk right now.”

F: “Are they here yet?”

A: “No. I have to sign my papers, so don’t speak.”

F: “But I need one too.” He struggles.

A: “Finny. You can’t have one of my papers. These are my work papers. Okay?” But this is too dark. That’s where I have news.”

F: “I have news too.”

A: “This is where we keep all our news.”

……….

F: “Are they coming? I’m making pancakes.”

A: “Finny, I’m the grown up you’re going to burn your fingers.”

F: “I know.”

A: “Finn, do you want to cook marshmallows?

F: “Yeah.”

A: “No electricity in the woods. So we need to cook marshmallows. This is the fire. Where are the marshmallows?”

F: “In my pocket.”

A: “Oh.Here’s the campfire.”

F: “Where?”

A: “Here.”

F: “Here?”

A: “I get a double tower ’cause I’m the best dad.”

F: “I get a triangle?”

A: “I’m the best dad so I get a double. You’re supposed to get one, one at a time. K?”

F: “Oh. K. First we have to roast them, right Asher?”

A: “Right. And I’m the Dad.”

F: “And I’m the baby. Am I the baby?”

A: “No. No.”

F: “Am I sister? Am I mommy?”

A: “NO.”

F: “What am I now?”

A: “You’re nothing.You’re’ just a piece of cloud talking.”

F: “But I don’t want to be a piece of cloud… I’ve got my hot dogs.”

A: They are marshamallows.”

F: “But I have some hot dogs.”

A: “No thanks.”

Now they are roasting their pretend marshallows. Playing side by side, but giving each other space. I try not to look up and make eye contact. I know once eye contact is made, it will be over.

A: Singing. “Dooday day bee bee… One two three four.”

Scream. Curtain closed. Time for rest.

I love these boys. Every character. Every role they play. Every day. All the time.

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